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• Why Goya Made His Haunting “Black Paintings” at the End of His Life, 05 Oct 2022 in Art&History
• Lizzo Plays James Madison’s Priceless, 200-Year-Old Crystal Flute, 03 Oct 2022 in History&Music
• How Writing Has Spread Across the World, from 3000 BC to This Year: An Animated Map, 30 Sep 2022 in Maps
• What It’s Like to Work in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Office Building, 30 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Meet the Hyperpolyglots, the People Who Can Mysteriously Speak Up to 32 Different Languages, 29 Sep 2022 in Language
• When Marlon Brando Refused the Oscar for His Role in The Godfather to Support the Rights of Native Americans (1973), 28 Sep 2022 in History&Television
• The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands, 28 Sep 2022 in History
• The Biggest Mistakes in Mapmaking History, 27 Sep 2022 in Maps
• Doctors in Brussels Can Now Prescribe Museum Visits as Treatments for Stress, Anxiety & Depression, 26 Sep 2022 in Museums&Psychology
• How the World Trade Center Was Rebuilt: A Visual Exploration of a 20-Year Project, 26 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Why Mapmakers Once Thought California Was an Island, 23 Sep 2022 in History&Maps
• Goodbye to the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s Strangest and Most Utopian Apartment Building, 22 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• Never Too Small: Architects Give Tours of Tiny Homes in Paris, Melbourne, Milan, Hong Kong & Beyond, 21 Sep 2022 in Architecture
• Getting Dressed Over the Centuries: 35 Videos Show How Women & Men Put on Clothes During Ancient, Medieval & Modern Times, 20 Sep 2022 in Fashion&History
• 5 Ways to Build an Alzheimer’s-Resistant Brain: Neuroscientist Lisa Genova Explains, 19 Sep 2022 in Life&Neuroscience
• The Evolution of the Electric Guitar: An Introduction to Every Major Variety of the Instrument That Made Rock-and-Roll, 16 Sep 2022 in History&Music&Technology
• The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century, 15 Sep 2022 in History&Technology
• How The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Invented Psychological Horror Film & Brought Expressionism to the Screen (1920), 14 Sep 2022 in Film&History
• RIP Jean-Luc Godard: Watch the French New Wave Icon Explain His Contrarian Worldview Back in the 1960s, 14 Sep 2022 in Film&History
• The Beauty & Ingenuity of the Pantheon, Ancient Rome’s Best-Preserved Monument: An Introduction, 13 Sep 2022 in Architecture&History
• The First Transit Map: a Close Look at the Subway-Style Tabula Peutingeriana of the 5th-Century Roman Empire, 12 Sep 2022 in History&Maps
• Hear Queen Elizabeth II Give Her Very First Speech to the British People, During World War II (1940), 09 Sep 2022 in History
• See the First 8K Footage of the Titanic, the Highest-Quality Video of the Shipwreck Yet, 08 Sep 2022 in History
• An AI-Generated Painting Won First Prize at a State Fair & Sparked a Debate About the Essence of Art, 07 Sep 2022 in Art&Technology
• Listen to Music Playlists to Help You Study Like Nietzsche, Socrates, Kant & Other Great Thinkers, 07 Sep 2022 in Music&Philosophy
• The Improbable Invention of Chinese Typewriters & Computer Keyboards: Three Videos Tell the Techno-Cultural Story, 06 Sep 2022 in History&Technology
• Kino Lorber Puts Online 75 Free Films, 02 Sep 2022 in Film
• What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Creates Images to Match the Lyrics of Iconic Songs: David Bowie’s “Starman,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” & More, 01 Sep 2022 in Artificial Intelligence&Music&Technology
• The Atomic Café: The Cult Classic Documentary Made Entirely Out of Nuclear Weapons Propaganda from the Cold War (1982), 31 Aug 2022 in Film&History
• Christopher Hitchens’ Final Interview: Hear the Newly-Released Uncut Conversation with Richard Dawkins, 30 Aug 2022 in Religion&Science
• How Cinema Inspired Edward Hopper’s Great Paintings, and How Edward Hopper Inspired Great Filmmakers, 29 Aug 2022 in Art&Film
• Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public Domain: Klimt, Munch, Dürer, and More, 26 Aug 2022 in Archives&Art&Museums
• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: Watch the Six-Part Series with Bill Moyers (1988), 25 Aug 2022 in Religion&Television
• Every Style of Beer Explained: An Expert Breaks Down 100 Types of Beer, from Malty Lagers, to London Brown Ales, to Bock Beer, 24 Aug 2022 in Food & Drink
• Pink Lady and Jeff: Japan’s Biggest Pop Musicians Star in One of America’s Worst-Reviewed TV Shows (1980), 23 Aug 2022 in History&Music&Television
• How Salman Rushdie Has Lived and Written Under the Threat of Death: a Free Documentary, 22 Aug 2022 in Current Affairs&Literature&Television
• What Made Better Call Saul a Master Class in Visual Storytelling: A Video Essay, 19 Aug 2022 in Television
• “When We All Have Pocket Telephones”: A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts Our Cellphone-Dominated Lives, 18 Aug 2022 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Technology
• The Brilliantly Nightmarish Art & Troubled Life of Painter Francis Bacon, 17 Aug 2022 in Art&History
• Orson Welles Reads the Abolitionist John Brown’s Final Speech After Being Sentenced to Death, 17 Aug 2022 in History
• What Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unusual Windows Tell Us About His Architectural Genius, 16 Aug 2022 in Architecture&History
• Olivia Newton-John (RIP) Reunites with Grease Co-Star John Travolta to Sing “You’re The One That I Want” (2002), 12 Aug 2022 in Film&Music
• All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist, 11 Aug 2022 in Music&Television
• The Photo That Triggered China’s Disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966), 10 Aug 2022 in History&Photography
• When Helen Keller Met Charlie Chaplin and Taught Him Sign Language (1919), 09 Aug 2022 in Film&History
• Damien Hirst’s NFT Experiment Comes to an End: How Many Buyers Chose Digital Tokens Over Physical Artworks?, 09 Aug 2022 in Art&Technology
• What a Disney Version of A Clockwork Orange Would Look Like, 04 Aug 2022 in Animation&Film
• The Last Cigarette Commercial Ever Aired on American TV (1971), 02 Aug 2022 in History&Television
• As Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura, Nichelle Nichols (RIP) Starred in “TV’s First Interracial Kiss” in 1968, 01 Aug 2022 in History&Television
• Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary Rewatch Cult-Classic Movies on Their New Video Archives Podcast, 29 Jul 2022 in Film&Podcasts
• Scenes from The Wizard of Oz Remastered in Brilliant 4K Detail: Behold the Work of a Creative YouTuber, 29 Jul 2022 in Film
• Visit Great Cities in the 1920s in Restored Color Film: New York City, London, Berlin, Paris, Venice & More, 28 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Watch 70+ Soviet Films Free Online, Courtesy of Mosfilm, the Hollywood of the Soviet Union, 27 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• When Erik Satie Took a Picture of Debussy & Stravinsky (June 1910), 25 Jul 2022 in History&Music&Photography
• Free Documentaries from Spain Let You Watch the Traditional Making of Wine, Cheese, Churros, Honey & More, 22 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965, 21 Jul 2022 in History&Music
• The Birdsong Project Features 220 Musicians, Actors, Artists & Writers Paying Tribute to Birds: Watch Performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello and Beck, 20 Jul 2022 in Music&Nature
• A Virtual Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Japanese Masterpiece, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, 20 Jul 2022 in Architecture&History
• Japanese Restaurants Show You How to Make Traditional Dishes in Meditative Videos: Soba, Tempura, Udon & More, 19 Jul 2022 in Food & Drink&Travel
• Never-Seen Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait Discovered Behind an Earlier Painting, 18 Jul 2022 in Art&History
• 30,000 Photographs of Black History & Culture Are Available Online in a New Getty Images Archive, 15 Jul 2022 in Archives&History&Photography
• John Waters’ Comical & Inspiring Commencement Speech: “You Too Can Fail Upwards” (2022), 13 Jul 2022 in Art&Film
• The First Photographs Taken by the Webb Telescope: See Faraway Galaxies & Nebulae in Unprecedented Detail, 13 Jul 2022 in Astronomy&Technology
• What Americans Ate for Breakfast & Dinner 200 Years Ago: Watch Re-Creations of Original Recipes, 12 Jul 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• Watch an 8‑Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Free Online, 10 Jul 2022 in Film&Literature
• An Introduction to the Voynich Manuscript, the World’s Most Mysterious Book, 08 Jul 2022 in Books&History
• The Earliest Known Footage of New Orleans Discovered: See a Mardi Gras Parade in 1898, 07 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Titanic Survivor Interviews: What It Was Like to Flee the Sinking Luxury Liner, 07 Jul 2022 in History
• When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Doghouse, His Smallest Architectural Creation (1956), 06 Jul 2022 in Architecture&History
• Watch the Hugely-Ambitious Soviet Film Adaptation of War and Peace Free Online (1966–67), 05 Jul 2022 in Film
• The Timeline of World War II (Month by Month) Told With Scenes Made from Dozens of WWII Movies, 04 Jul 2022 in Film&History
• Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro Is Getting Adapted for the Stage by The Royal Shakespeare Company & Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, 01 Jul 2022 in Animation&Film&Theatre
• Free Online: Watch Stalker, Solaris, Mirror, and Other Masterworks by Soviet Auteur Andrei Tarkovsky, 29 Jun 2022 in Film
• Free: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Films by Sergei Eisenstein, the Revolutionary Soviet Filmmaker, 28 Jun 2022 in Film&History
• Marie Curie’s Ph.D. Thesis on Radioactivity–Which Made Her the First Woman in France to Receive a Doctoral Degree in Physics, 27 Jun 2022 in History&Science
• Color Footage of the Liberation of Paris, Shot by Hollywood Director George Stevens (1944), 24 Jun 2022 in Film&History
• The Otherworldly Art of William Blake: An Introduction to the Visionary Poet and Painter, 22 Jun 2022 in Art&History&Poetry&Religion
• The Biology of Bonsai Trees: The Science Behind the Traditional Japanese Art Form, 21 Jun 2022 in Art&Biology
• Hear a Neuroscientist-Curated 712-Track Playlist of Music that Causes Frisson, or Musical Chills, 21 Jun 2022 in Music&Neuroscience
• The Revolutionary Paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Video Essay, 17 Jun 2022 in Art&History
• Ziggy Stardust Turns 50: Celebrate David Bowie’s Signature Character with a Newly Released Version of “Starman”, 17 Jun 2022 in History&Music
• How Wealthy Women (Like the Mona Lisa) Got Dressed in Renaissance Florence, 16 Jun 2022 in Art&Fashion&History
• Revisit Vintage Issues of Astounding Stories, the 1930s Magazine that Gave Rise to Science Fiction as We Know It, 14 Jun 2022 in Magazines&Sci Fi
• Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: An Animated Chapter-by-Chapter Breakdown of the Ancient Chinese Treatise, 13 Jun 2022 in Books&History
• Werner Herzog’s New Novel, The Twilight World, Tells the Story of the WWII Japanese Soldier Who Famously Refused to Surrender, 10 Jun 2022 in Books&History
• Watch the First Movie Ever Streamed on the Net: Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991), 09 Jun 2022 in Film&Technology
• When David Bowie & Brian Eno Made a Twin Peaks-Inspired Album, Outside (1995), 08 Jun 2022 in Music
• Ray Liotta (RIP) Talks About His Most Memorable Performances: Something Wild, Goodfellas, Field of Dreams, and More, 06 Jun 2022 in Film
• Susan Sontag’s Commencement Address Advice: “Pay Attention. It Connects You With Others. It Makes You Eager. Stay Eager.”, 06 Jun 2022 in Life
• Dying from Overwork: Disturbing Looks Inside Japan’s Karoshi and China’s “996” Work System, 02 Jun 2022 in Business&Economics&Health
• Machiavelli’s The Prince Explained in an Illustrated Film, 02 Jun 2022 in Books&History&Politics
• How the Byzantine Empire Rose, Fell, and Created the Glorious Hagia Sophia: A History in Ten Animated Minutes, 01 Jun 2022 in Animation&Architecture&History
• Haruki Murakami Jazz Mixes: Hear Playlists of Jazz Pieces Namechecked in Norwegian Wood and 1Q84, 30 May 2022 in Books&Literature&Music
• Margaret Atwood Releases an Unburnable Edition of The Handmaid’s Tale, to Support Freedom of Expression, 26 May 2022 in Books&Literature
• How Much Would It Cost to Build the Colosseum Today?, 25 May 2022 in Architecture&History
• How Korean Things Are Made: Watch Mesmerizing Videos Showing the Making of Traditional Clothes, Teapots, Buddhist Instruments & More, 25 May 2022 in History&Technology
• The Scream Explained: What’s Really Happening in Edvard Munch’s World-Famous Painting, 23 May 2022 in Art&History
• R.I.P. Vangelis: The Composer Who Created the Future Noir Soundtrack for Blade Runner Dies at 79, 20 May 2022 in Film&Music
• David Cronenberg Visits a Video Store & Talks About His Favorite Movies, 19 May 2022 in Film
• Hans Zimmer Was in the First-Ever Video Aired on MTV, The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”, 18 May 2022 in Music&Television
• An Architect Breaks Down the Design Details of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, 17 May 2022 in Architecture&Film
• The White House’s Forgotten 1970s Vinyl Record Collection: Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Captain Beefheart, Donna Summer & More, 16 May 2022 in History&Music
• This Is Spinal Tap Will Get a Sequel 40 Years Later, Reuniting Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer, 13 May 2022 in Film&Music
• Quentin Tarantino Names His 20 Favorite Movies, Covering Two Decades, 12 May 2022 in Film
• Real Interviews with People Who Lived in the 1800s, 11 May 2022 in History
• Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Spent Years Debating How to Depict the Aliens in 2001: A Space Odyssey; Carl Sagan Provided the Answer: Don’t Depict Them at All, 10 May 2022 in Sci Fi
• Hayao Miyazaki, The Mind of a Master: A Thoughtful Video Essay Reveals the Driving Forces Behind the Animator’s Incredible Body of Work, 09 May 2022 in Animation&Film
• Self-Encounter: The 10-Episode TV Show That Introduced Existentialism to Americans in 1961, 06 May 2022 in Philosophy&Television
• The Ghosts and Monsters of Hokusai: See the Famed Woodblock Artist’s Fearsome & Amusing Visions of Strange Apparitions, 05 May 2022 in Art&History
• How Postwar Italian Cinema Created La Dolce Vita and Then the Paparazzi, 04 May 2022 in Film&History&Media
• The Last Morning in Pompeii & The Night Pompeii Died: A New Video Series Explores the End of the Doomed Roman City, 03 May 2022 in History
• Experience Seinfeld’s Famous “Soup Nazi” Scenes With & Without Laugh Tracks, 02 May 2022 in History&Television
• Coca-Cola Was Originally Sold as an Intellectual Stimulant & Medicine: The Unlikely Story of the Iconic Soft Drink’s Invention, 29 Apr 2022 in Food & Drink&History
• An Online Archive of Beautiful, Early 20th Century Japanese Postcards, 28 Apr 2022 in Archives&Art&History&Museums
• A Whirlwind Architectural Tour of the New York Public Library–“Hidden Details” and All, 27 Apr 2022 in Architecture&History
• Why Do Oreos Never Come Apart Evenly?: MIT Researchers Build an “Oreometer” to Find the Answer, 27 Apr 2022 in Food & Drink&Science
• Why Does This Lady Have a Fly on Her Head?: A Curious Look at a 15th-Century Portrait, 26 Apr 2022 in Art&History
• How Thomas Edison & Henry Ford Envisioned a Low-Priced Electric Vehicle in 1914, Almost Changing the Direction of Automobile History, 25 Apr 2022 in History&Technology
• The Sistine Chapel: A $22,000 Art-Book Collection Features Remarkable High-Resolution Views of the Murals of Michelangelo, Botticelli & Other Renaissance Masters, 22 Apr 2022 in Art&Books&History&Religion
• 100-Year-Old Music Recordings Can Now Be Heard for the First Time, Thanks to New Digital Technology, 21 Apr 2022 in History&Music&Technology
• What Great Archaeological Sites Used To Actually Look Like: Machu Picchu, the Colossus of Rhodes, Hadrian’s Wall & More in All Their Glory, 20 Apr 2022 in History
• The Library of Esoterica: Taschen’s Visual History of Tarot, Astrology & Witchcraft, 18 Apr 2022 in Art&Books&Religion
• Make Your Own Medieval Memes with a New Tool from the Dutch National Library, 14 Apr 2022 in Art&History&Web/Tech
• How Did Roman Aqueducts Work?: The Most Impressive Achievement of Ancient Rome’s Infrastructure, Explained, 13 Apr 2022 in History&Technology
• Why Algorithms Are Called Algorithms, and How It All Goes Back to the Medieval Persian Mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi, 12 Apr 2022 in History&Math&Technology
• How Ukraine’s Works of Art Are Being Saved in Wartime–Using the Lessons of World War II, 11 Apr 2022 in Art&Current Affairs&History
• Why Dutch & Japanese Cities Are Insanely Well Designed (and American Cities Are Terribly Designed), 07 Apr 2022 in Environment&Technology
• The Story of Googie Architecture, the Iconic Architectural Style of Los Angeles, 06 Apr 2022 in Architecture&History
• The Little Prince: Footage Gets Unearthed Of the Pop Star at Age 11, 05 Apr 2022 in History&Music&Television
• How To Build a 13th-Century Castle, Using Only Authentic Medieval Tools & Techniques, 31 Mar 2022 in Architecture&History&Television
• How Previous Decades Predicted the Future: The 21st Century as Imagined in the 1900s, 1950s, 1980s, and Other Eras, 30 Mar 2022 in History&Technology
• Francis Ford Coppola Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now & More, 30 Mar 2022 in Film
• When Stalin Starved Ukraine, 29 Mar 2022 in Current Affairs&History
• How Yayoi Kusama, Obsessed with Polka Dots, Became One of the Most Radical Artists of All Time, 25 Mar 2022 in Art
• Japanese Toy Designs from the Late 19th & Early 20th Century: Explore an Online Archive, 24 Mar 2022 in Art&History
• Watch David Hockney Paint with Light, Using the Quantel Paintbox Graphics System (1986), 24 Mar 2022 in Art&Technology&Television
• Marina Abramović Brings Back Her Iconic Performance Art Piece, The Artist Is Present, to Raise Money for Ukraine, 23 Mar 2022 in Art&Current Affairs
• Explore Rarely-Seen Art by J. R. R. Tolkien in a New Web Site Created by the Tolkien Estate, 22 Mar 2022 in Art&Literature
• What Was Actually Lost When the Library of Alexandria Burned?, 22 Mar 2022 in History
• Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road: The Only Known Footage of the Beat Icon Reading His Work (1959), 17 Mar 2022 in History&Literature&Television